Shari Villarosa

Shari English Woods Villarosa is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. She was the United States Ambassador to Mauritius and to the Seychelles from 2012 to 2017.

Shari Villarosa
United States Ambassador to the Seychelles
In office
November 5, 2012 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byMary Wilis
Succeeded byDavid Dale Reimer
United States Ambassador to Mauritius
In office
November 5, 2012 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byMary Wilis
Succeeded byDavid Dale Reimer
United States Ambassador to Burma
Acting
In office
August 2005 – September 2008
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byCarmen Martinez
Succeeded byLarry Dinger
Personal details
Born
Shari English Woods Villarosa

1951 (age 68–69)
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
College of William and Mary

Education

Shari graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in International Studies. She also has a law degree from The College of William and Mary. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Indonesian.

Career

On September 22, 2012, the United States Senate confirmed Villarosa to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Seychelles.

She served as the chargé d'affaires for the United States Embassy in Rangoon, Burma, from August 2005 to September 2008. At the time, there had not been a U.S. Ambassador to Burma since 1990, so as chargé d'affaires, Villarosa was the chief of mission and the most senior official in the embassy.

She previously served as Director of Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore Affairs in the Department of State's East Asia and Pacific Bureau, Economic Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Dili, East Timor.

Her other overseas assignments have been in Songkhla, Thailand; Brasilia, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; and Bogotá, Colombia. Her assignments at the State Department in Washington, D.C., have been as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs; Deputy Director of the Office of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam Affairs; Singapore and Indonesia desk officer; and in the Office of Investment Affairs. In addition, she spent a year at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, as Diplomat-in-Residence.

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gollark: Generally, through markets.
gollark: If you could do that, they would not be scarce in the first place.
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gollark: Your resource allocation thing, though - you don't seem to actually realize what "scarce" means?

See also

References
    Diplomatic posts
    Preceded by
    Carmen Martinez    		 Chargés d’Affaires to Burma
    2005–2008    		 Succeeded by
    Larry Dinger
    Preceded by
    Mary Wilis    		 United States Ambassador to Mauritius
    2012–2017    		 Succeeded by
    David Dale Reimer
    United States Ambassador to the Seychelles
    2012–2017


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